CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Police say five people including a 15-year-old boy have been killed in separate shootings from Friday afternoon into early Saturday. Police said the boy was in the street in the Jeffery Manor neighborhood on the city’s South Side when a vehicle pulled up Friday afternoon and someone inside fired a gun,…… Read more »
CHICAGO (AP) — Black people are facing a combination of stressors experts worry could affect the suicide rate. Isolation, a shortage of mental health providers, and racial trauma are some of the factors hitting simultaneously. Black people suffer disproportionately from COVID-19 and have seen soaring rates in youth suicide attempts. Mental health advocates are calling…… Read more »
Eldon L. Teel, 82, formerly of Salem passed away July 11, 2020, at his daughter’s home n Murphysboro, IL, surrounded by his loving family. Arrangements will be announced later by the Sutherland – Rankin Funeral Home in Salem.… Read more »
Tina S. Deadmond-Finley, age 52 of Salem, passed away on Friday, June 10, 2020, at Salem Township Hospital. Private interment will take place in Peaceful Valley Cemetery in Odin. Memorials can be made to the family and can be received at the Crouse Funeral Home in Salem. Online condolences can be left at www.CrouseFH.com or on the…… Read more »
The Salem Aquatic Center will be closed Tuesday, July 21st, to allow staff to attend the Salem Community High School Prom that was postponed due to Covid-19. The pool will only be open for Early Morning Swim on July 21st. The pool will reopen on Wednesday, July 22 as regularly scheduled.… Read more »
Both Marion and Jefferson County are reporting new COVID-19 cases on Friday. The Marion County Health Department is reporting a female in her 40s is doing well and is at home on isolation. She lived in the same household as a prior contact. The case is the 78th positive in the county. 67 have now…… Read more »
The Illinois Department of Public Health has confirmed another 1,317 new cases of the coronavirus disease, including 25 additional confirmed deaths. None of the deaths are in Southern Illinois, with 16 in Cook County and four others in the collar counties around Chicago. Within the past 24 hours ending on Thursday morning, laboratories have reported…… Read more »
All of Greenview Road and South Perrine from Walnut Hill Road to Greenview Road in Centralia is under a boil order until further notice.… Read more »
Centralia Township has announced the Airport Road will be closed from Calumet to Walnut Hill Road on Monday for oiling and then rolling to improve the surface. The road will close at 7 am and reopen by three Monday afternoon.… Read more »
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — House Speaker Michael Madigan is calling for the removal of Stephen Douglas imagery from the Capitol, citing the late U.S. senator’s “disturbing past as a Mississippi slave owner and his abhorrent words toward people of color.” Madigan says he’ll offer a resolution to authorize the removal of a Douglas portrait in…… Read more »